Word: defenseless
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...cannot decide for themselves where they want to spend a Saturday night, are the ones who should feel the most insulted by his article. How can Friedland honestly speak of fighting chauvinism when he feels that he is the one who must dictate what is "acceptable" for poor and defenseless Harvard women...
...portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great auk provided a source of meat and oil, fishermen clubbed the birds to death by the millions on the rookeries off Newfoundland. The last two known members of the species, a nesting pair, were killed on June 3, 1844, strangled by Icelandic fishermen recruited by a merchant who hoped...
...enjoy working on your high school newspaper? Well, you might consider re-living your glory days at the Harvard Independent, the campus' weekly newspaper. Last but not least, The Harvard Crimson deserves your consideration as an extracurricular option. Help us stalk campus celebrities and attack the defenseless. All you need is a word processor and a healthy dose of ill will...
...children are entitled to special consideration for two reasons: helplessness and innocence. They have not yet acquired either the faculty of reason or the wisdom of experience. Consequently, they are defenseless (incapable of fending for themselves) and blameless (incapable of real...
...born on a nesting beach in Mexico (only a few survive) and then swim madly out to sea, where they are carried by the Gulf Stream all the way up to Long Island, N.Y. (it takes three to five years), where they feed for a year on the defenseless spider crab as a training exercise before they take off again and swim down to the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland, where they eat the much tougher blue claw crab for which the Long Island boot camp has prepared them? Needless to say, they made my inventory...